Jim Harrison Quotes

I admit to occasionally sharing the financial hysteria of the rest of the country, the urgency to save more for the family in case you can't write any more.

Jim Harrison

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• Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Want

• Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Space
  • Ideas
  • Own

• Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Way
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• The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Work
  • Attention
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• I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • School
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  • Fact

• I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
  • Time
  • Remember
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• One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Up
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• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Been
  • Out

• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
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• An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Future
  • Thought
  • First

• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Great
  • Madness
  • Proof

• I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Better
  • Did
  • Ohio

• I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Living

• When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • School
  • Pretty

• At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Age
  • Used
  • Only

• I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Leader
  • Role
  • Prison

• In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those mirrors.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • World
  • Writing
  • Real

• Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.

  

  James Levine
  • Women
  • Family
  • Friends

• We knowingly chose to protest in the Christ the Savior Cathedral, the most important church in the country, to denounce the connection between the church and Putin.

  

  Yekaterina Samutsevich
  • Important
  • Country
  • Church

• Henry told me he is often the life of the party, as if he didn't already know that to be the life of the party is the most sad and pathetic of all things to be.

  

  Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • Life
  • Party
  • Sad

• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Characters

• I admit to occasionally sharing the financial hysteria of the rest of the country, the urgency to save more for the family in case you can't write any more.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Country
  • Family
  • Rest